[Cracked Sidewalks] Warriors fall to the Blue Devils in Kansas City

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Warriors fall to the Blue Devils in Kansas City

Written by: noreply@blogger.com (Tim Blair)

The Marquette Warriors sampled the bitter taste of defeat last night falling 82-77 to the top-ranked Duke Blue Devlis last night at the O'Reilly Auto Parts CBE Classic in Kansas City.

The Warriors (4-1) have no time to grouse about the defeat, tonight they lace up the hi-tops once more as they face the Gonzaga Bulldogs in the 2010 version of the Jumpin' Jesuit Jamboree.  The Zags fell to Kansas State 81-64 last night.  Tipoff tonight is scheduled for 6:45 Marquette Standard Time on ESPNU.

After a shaky first half that saw Marquette head into the locker room trailing 40-31, the Warriors packed wallop during the first ten minutes of the second half.  Led by the impossibly hot Darius Johnson-Odom who scored all 13 of his points in the second half, Marquette tied the game at 57-57 on a Jae Crowder jumper with 10:32 remaining in regulation.

If not for the sequence which followed in the next two minutes, MU might have won the game.

The Warriors turned the ball over on their next three consecutive possessions, two by senior Dwight Buycks, and surrendered a Blue Devils' three-pointer on a second chance opportunity as Duke quickly extended its lead back to 66-57 and held off MU late to secure the victory.

Jimmy Butler led MU with 22 points and six rebounds while Crowder finished with 15 points.  Sophomore point guard Junior Cadougan chipped in with five points and a team-high seven assists against just one turnover.  Big man Davante Gardner delivered nine points and four boards despite an injured left shoulder.

Box Score.
J-S game recap.
Rosiak blogs on the loss.
The Anonymous Eagle recaps the loss as well.

http://www.youtube.com/v/nJBBf2TUOZc?fs=1&hl=en_US

http://www.crackedsidewalks.com/2010/11/warriors-fall-to-blue-devils-in-kansas.html

[bilsu]

Last year offensively DJO was a one half player. By that I mean most of his points would basically came in one half. I thought he would be more consistant this year, but that was not the case last night.

[fiskadoro]

Jimmy Butler's default setting is beast. A loss is a loss, but they had a good rally and run in the second half, so no need to feel too upset, as long as they handle the biz against the Zags.

[Brad Galli]

Thanks for the video post. We'll have another recap tonight and we're also shooting an entire "Turkey Tourney Edition" of Marquette Basketball Weekly down here.

[Skatastrophy]

Thanks for the video post. We'll have another recap tonight and we're also shooting an entire "Turkey Tourney Edition" of Marquette Basketball Weekly down here.

Just a suggestion:  It might be interesting for you guys to do a segment on the crew filming the Revealed series.  It'd be a little meta, but I don't know anything about those guys and I'd be interested in what challenges they're having with access and what they believe their successes have been thus far.

Another great job on the post-game, Brad.

[Brad Galli]

Thanks a lot. And thanks for the suggestion. I've talked with the guys doing "Revealed" before. That is an idea we will look at pursuing.

I'll let you all know we interviewed Dick Vitale in his dressing room before yesterday's game. He had some spectacular, entertaining stories and memories about Al McGuire that we'll share with you this week.

[MUEng92]

I'll let you all know we interviewed Dick Vitale in his dressing room before yesterday's game. He had some spectacular, entertaining stories and memories about Al McGuire that we'll share with you this week.

Please do not post video of the interview in Vitale's dressing room.  It could lead to nightmares.  In fact, no audio either.  How about just a written transcript!

[SalsaMan]

I'll let you all know we interviewed Dick Vitale in his dressing room

Why the frack does Vitale have a dressing room? What a blow hard.

[augoman]

the good news is that I was able to find a volume setting whereby I could hear everything, but Vitale was reduced to a mumble that was easily ignored.